I hate programming so, so much.

I stopped renewing some of my certs because it felt like I was spending my entire life studying for damn certification tests or doing training, but I still have my CISSP and just renewed my CCNP as my two highest-level certs.

A lot of people have the CISSP and a lot of people have the CCNP. Very, very few have both together as each one of them is really frickin’ hard. I’m pretty proud of that.

Both are lovingly dedicated to my father who said I’d never achieve anything.

They’ve been getting away with this for forever. It’s gotta stop!

The problem is buying something so damn nasty as Pop Tarts. Buy crap, get crap. Seems obvious to me. Pop Tarts: a food so fucking nasty only an American could love it.

Natalie performed this live at the concert we went to in Spokane. It’s a good song even in studio form, but in concert it was really excellent. Just great, and much more powerful than this version.

Some people you can just see the intelligence in their eyes, emanating from how they look at the world. Natalie is one of those people. Reminds me of one of the greatest compliments anyone has ever paid to me. A friend of mine was looking at a photo of me and my date that was taken during a military ball I attended in the army. She said, “I can just look at your eyes in this photo and know how crazy smart you are.”

I didn’t know what she meant at first until I thought about Natalie and realized that, yeah, I did know.

If you don’t get what’s happening in the video, she’s receiving electric shocks to her face causing involuntary muscle movements; that’s not CGI.